[Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worcester.oxford.ac.uk
Wed May 5 20:01:52 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 16:24, Andrei de A. Formiga wrote:
>    I'm finding wxHaskell very nice, and a wxWidgets
> binding is something many other "advanced" languages
> don't have (even OCaml). The only downside is having a
> 'Hello World' GUI application with 7 Mb... but it runs
> quite well and smooth once it's loaded.

We have the same problem with gtk2hs. A stripped simple(ish) prog weighs
in at about 2.5Mb.

I'm not quite sure what's in there that makes it so big.

Duncan



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